It Rains Solid Diamonds on Uranus and Neptune

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Scientists say that there are diamond rainstorms on Uranus and Neptune, and new tests have confirmed the phenomenon: German researchers used two types of laser to drive shockwaves through a type of plastic composed of hydrogen and carbon, just like Uranus and Neptune's oceans, and diamonds did in fact form. They are thought to sink like rain through the ocean until they hit the planets’ solid core.

…no one could prove that this would really work - until now. In a study published this week in the journal Nature Astrophysics, researchers say they were able to produce this "diamond rain" using fancy plastic and high-powered lasers. "Previously, researchers could only assume that the diamonds had formed," lead author Dominik Kraus, a physicist at the Helmholtz Dresden-Rossendorf research center in Germany, told the magazine Cosmos. "When I saw the results of this latest experiment, it was one of the best moments of my scientific career."
 
When dolla bills ain't enough and you need to make it rain diamonds...
 
I bet they had a large grant they needed to legitimize ...
 
Wait, isn't the plot of the book 2061 about giant space diamonds on Europa? Guess the old man Clarke wasn't too far off.
 
There are times rain storms pelt you pretty hard here as it is. Would hate to be in that rain.
 
Exavior said:
There are times rain storms pelt you pretty hard here as it is. Would hate to be in that rain.
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Not me. I'd be out there like:

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Diamonds aren't all that uncommon as it is. The supply is just militantly controlled by a few large companies.

Also:

Twinkling in the sky is a diamond star of 10 billion trillion trillion carats, astronomers have discovered. The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallized carbon, 4,000 km across, some 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus.
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Ultima99 said:
Diamonds would become abundant commodities and we could finally start using them for something besides spending 2 months salary to stick one on some bitches finger.
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you're acting like there is some kind of artificial scarcity involved in the diamond market.

there is.
 
This is cool as shit to me. Neptune is my favorite planet and always has been. So many mysteries and cool shit that goes on there that we're just starting to uncover like the 1300 MPH winds! That's about twice the speed of sound! Or the fact that it radiates more energy than it receives from the sun.
 
Diamonds aren't scarce here, I doubt anyone wants to go there just to get some.

Now metals on the other hand, that's some shit we need!
 
Well. So the woman of planet earth think that they have a few planets that can supply them with all of the diamonds they need.


Here is something for the men of this planet:

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YES! We have space booze and I bet that its a better party.
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Ultima99 said:
Diamonds would become abundant commodities and we could finally start using them for something besides spending 2 months salary to stick one on some bitches finger.
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Very true. As a mater of fact, diamond would - considering getting that much to earth for cheep - be worth less than sand. Maybe even worth less than the coal that diamonds come from. Imagine the solution to dirty coal burning being burning diamonds instead. Burning ice to lessen global warming. Wonder how much co2 diamond burning creates and how many btu's they give off?

Woman would move to sapphire or pearls as soon as diamond becomes a commodity. Too easy to buy. Only a partial paycheck would buy a pocketfull.
 
Um, what's the difference between 'diamonds' and 'solid diamonds'?? Are there not solid diamonds? :)
 
Trimlock said:
Diamonds aren't scarce here, I doubt anyone wants to go there just to get some.

Now metals on the other hand, that's some shit we need!
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Depends on your definition of scarce.....Its all artificial value anyway. Hell they have grown diamonds for decades, they just aren't "found naturally" and are just plain grown which are cheaper because of the definition of a "real" diamond.
 
Master_shake_ said:
you're acting like there is some kind of artificial scarcity involved in the diamond market.

there is.
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Yeah, I think the are over-doing it though... Now a days at best I can buy diamond sandpaper with 2 months salary (I wouldn't spend that much anyway but regardless).
 
NeoNemesis said:
Twinkling in the sky is a diamond star of 10 billion trillion trillion carats, astronomers have discovered. The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallized carbon, 4,000 km across, some 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus.
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Almost makes my wife's anniversary expectations seem reasonable.
 
MacLeod said:
This is cool as shit to me. Neptune is my favorite planet and always has been. So many mysteries and cool shit that goes on there that we're just starting to uncover like the 1300 MPH winds! That's about twice the speed of sound! Or the fact that it radiates more energy than it receives from the sun.
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Mine too, and Triton is my favorite moon. It makes me sad that there aren't more missions and telescope time devoted to it. The crazy magnetic fields of Neptune and Uranus are cool too. Doesn't sound like any space agencies care enough to do much in the near future though...
 
I'm not putting a diamond on my future wife's finger. Fuck supporting these diamond crooks.

it's the thought that counts....

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My anus rains diamonds after eating Taco Bell. Does Uranus too?
 
We are prepping to live on an ocean somewhere else also. Ideas start small but this looks a little flaky to me. Video in the tweet.

 
Ultima99 said:
Diamonds would become abundant commodities and we could finally start using them for something besides spending 2 months salary to stick one on some bitches finger.
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You'd be surprised at the price of industrial diamonds. Some are cheap as hell and I would not be surprised to see them employed in our hobby niche as power densities increase.
 
Megalith said:
They are thought to sink like rain through the ocean until they hit the planets’ solid core.
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There aren't any oceans on these gas giants or even a discernible solid core. They are colossal balls of gaseous material that are thin at the visible surface and, unlike terrestrial planets like Earth and Venus, increase linearly in density until their solidification at the center due to immense gravitational pressure.
 
N4CR said:
You'd be surprised at the price of industrial diamonds. Some are cheap as hell and I would not be surprised to see them employed in our hobby niche as power densities increase.
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Even real natural ones are not that expensive. At one point they were so common that the price was nosediving until marketing departments figured out to connect diamonds into love, wedding rings and whatever. If you want to give your significant other a genuinely valuable and scarce gem-ring, buy a ruby. Or any gem other than diamond.
 
N4CR said:
You'd be surprised at the price of industrial diamonds. Some are cheap as hell and I would not be surprised to see them employed in our hobby niche as power densities increase.
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Twinkling in the sky is a diamond star of 10 billion trillion trillion carats, astronomers have discovered. The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallized carbon, 4,000 km across, some 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus
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For a simple and basic calculation to get an idea of how much 10 billion trillion trillion carats is, I went to google and found out that a carat is about 0.2 grams. So there are 5 carats to a gram.

1 billion carats is 2,204,622.62185 pounds. 2,204,623 pounds. Lets say 2,200,000 pounds equals 1 billion carats.

22,000,000 lbs is 10 billion carats

1 trillion x 1 trillion is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

22,000,000 x 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 = 22,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 lbs

10 billion trillion trillion carats = 22,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 lbs (30 zeros)

The earth weighs 13,170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pounds. (24 zeros)

If my calculations hold up, this diamond is heavier than the earth!

There are a lot of different ways to look at this number if its correct. The one that I will go with for now is that this diamond is a planet onto itself. More diamond than ever seen before. More than all of the sand or coal on earth.

But its says a star 4,000 km across. Something is not adding up.

I wanna divorce.......
 
Of course diamonds are expensive guys, I mean it's not like it rains diamonds from the sky. So like pay me monies for the diamonds cause they're rare and I say so.

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MaZa said:
If you want to give your significant other a genuinely valuable and scarce gem-ring, buy a ruby. Or any gem other than diamond.
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This.
Bit of a gemfag and I find diamonds to be rather boring. I find their properties and optical/mechanical characteristics interesting but as a stone to give, so stale, overdone and boring.

Some gem grade moonstone or similar is far more interesting and personal IMO. Ruby is a nice idea too, emerald also. Very pretty and the rich colours are amazing.
Opals are great also!
 
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